tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post8124779840439004187..comments2024-03-29T04:57:26.162-04:00Comments on John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Cult Movies and Classic TV: Lost in Space 50th Anniversary Blogging: "The Questing Beast" (January 11, 1967)John Kenneth Muirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15629979615332893780noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post-20609695583787177482019-02-16T15:47:11.137-05:002019-02-16T15:47:11.137-05:00Season Two is pure fun, warm, charming and wonderf...Season Two is pure fun, warm, charming and wonderful. Season Three (including "The Great Vegetable Rebellion") is the worst. No, colorful Season Two is not clasasic B&W Season One..but it is better overall than overrated psychedelic (shorter) Season Three.. Jimmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15285784257826044689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post-6181282236996815302018-01-11T16:52:17.875-05:002018-01-11T16:52:17.875-05:00This is much better than most give it credit for, ...This is much better than most give it credit for, Mythical Monkey. It is not "stupid" or "boring." In fact, Season Two as a whole is charming, lovely, and excellent. The "worst" one of the season would be "The Space Vikings." <br /><br />Jimmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15285784257826044689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post-72563206450579120652015-12-31T01:30:39.834-05:002015-12-31T01:30:39.834-05:00John,
Thank You for the shout out! I've been ...John,<br />Thank You for the shout out! I've been on vacation and was unable to see your reviews until now.<br />I was curious to see if you'd comment on the Doctor Smith subplot, which I consider to be remarkable. It's so out of place in this episode, and we see a side of Smith that we would never see again.<br />To call the rest of this episode tripe would be an insult to tripe. This one made you ashamed as a kid to admit you were a fan of Lost In Space. The less said, the better.<br />Mythical Monkey, I loved your reminisce about your notebook. Like you, I discovered the show in syndication as a kid. I used to own a copy of The Star Trek Concordance by Bjo Trimble, and was determined to create a concordance for Lost In Space. I still have the booklet I made. By Season Two, you can see me literally losing interest with each passing episode. Needless to say, I never finished the book, but it's a neat little reminder of times past.<br />The Questing Beast may have been part of the reason why Lost In Space never got its own concordance!<br />SteveAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13101722769411384962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post-21057081972451378592015-12-23T09:53:05.015-05:002015-12-23T09:53:05.015-05:00Although "The Space Vikings" and "M...Although "The Space Vikings" and "Mutiny in Space" are still coming up, this one gets my vote as the worst <i>Lost in Space</i> episode ever. Yes, "The Great Vegetable Rebellion" in season three is awful but it's fantastically, memorably awful. "The Questing Beast," like so much of season two, is merely stupid and boring.<br /><br />And you're right that kids could tell the difference. I became a fan of the show at around age nine during its first run in syndication and I used to write up summaries of the episodes I liked and draw a picture from a key scene (the cyclops, for example, from "There Were Giants in the Earth"). Looking back at the notebook I still have, I did summaries of most of season one and about half of season three, but only did six from season two. Voting with my feet, so to speak, it's clear that even as a kid I knew pure crap when I saw it.Mythical Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post-27243694014391487552015-12-22T17:38:19.076-05:002015-12-22T17:38:19.076-05:00Yeah, a great point could be made about the need f...Yeah, a great point could be made about the need for the "quest" in our lives, that intangible something we need to have purpose and meaning. Problem is, as you point out, this is Lost In Space, the color years. Burn it, burn it with fire!Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03097420555737415471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post-86532204325494522252015-12-22T17:27:19.571-05:002015-12-22T17:27:19.571-05:00John we can only wonder what LOST IN SPACE might h...John we can only wonder what LOST IN SPACE might have been if it was treated serious as STAR TREK and not "camp" BATMAN of that '60s era. The dragon suit even appear in a BATMAN episode: <br />http://tothebatpoles.blogspot.com/2011/11/episodes-102-103-ogg-and-i-how-to-hatch.html<br /><br />Rinse & repeat was season two. Well said John.<br /><br />SGBSGBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07137406272001346149noreply@blogger.com